Tumbleweed Unveils New 64-bit High-performance Hardware Platform for All Tumbleweed Appliance Products
New Appliance Hardware Significantly Boosts Performance while Simplifying Configuration, Management and Deployment
Redwood City, CA - October 11, 2005 - Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: TMWD), a leading provider of email security, managed file transfer, and identity validation appliance and software products, today unveiled a new high performance hardware platform built around AMD's 64-bit Opteron CPU. These new appliances are extremely fast, scalable and easy to install, and will be used as a common platform for all Tumbleweed appliance products.
The appeal of appliances continues as organizations seek to simplify deployment, and assure the security of mission-critical, Internet-facing devices. As processing and networking demands have dramatically increased, the need for high performance devices is more important than ever. Tumbleweed’s new hardware appliances provide excellent performance with throughput of up to half a million email messages per hour, making them ideally suited for the computationally intensive functions of email management and security, file transfer management and security, and real-time identity validation.
Tumbleweed’s new hardware platform includes multiple appliance form-factors. The new 3500 Series appliances feature a 1U chassis, with a 1.8 Ghz Opteron CPU. The 5500 Series appliances include dual 2.0 Ghz Opteron CPUs and provide fault tolerance with redundant, hot-swappable disk drives and power supplies. Both 1U and 2U models feature a unique front panel LCD and controls which enable rapid network configuration, status information, and appliance reset with no external cabling or monitors, greatly simplifying the deployment process. In addition, Tumbleweed’s products feature centralized management of multiple appliances from a single administrative interface, providing scalability for large or distributed organizations.
“With our latest appliance hardware, we can support the information security needs of companies at every level of scale and expertise - from small to medium enterprises all the way up to distributed global enterprises,” said Joseph Fisher, VP of Marketing at Tumbleweed. “Simple deployment, easy maintenance, and a common platform will give our customers the highest level of performance and support across our appliance products.”
New 64-bit appliance hardware is available in the following products:
- MailGate Appliance: State of the art inbound and outbound email security; network edge defense, antivirus, antispam, content filtering, policy management, encryption
- MailGate Edge: A secure email relay appliance that delivers network-based email defense against Directory Harvest (DHA) and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
- MailGate Secure Messenger: A policy-based, secure message delivery product that inspects incoming and outgoing mail and dynamically applies user-defined encryption and routing preferences
- Tumbleweed Secure Transport: Enterprise file transfer management, automation, and security
- Tumbleweed Valicert Validation Authority: Real-time identity validation for PKI
About Tumbleweed Communications Corp.
Tumbleweed provides security software and appliances for email protection, file transfers, and identity validation that allow organizations to safely conduct business over the Internet. Tumbleweed offers these solutions in three comprehensive product suites: MailGate, SecureTransport, and Validation Authority. MailGate provides protection against spam, viruses, and attacks, and enables policy-based message filtering, encryption, and routing. SecureTransport enables business to safely exchange large files and transactions without proprietary software. Validation Authority is the world-leading solution for determining the validity of digital certificates. Tumbleweed’s enterprise and government customers include ABN Amro, Banc of America Securities, Catholic Healthcare West, JP Morgan Chase & Co., The Regence Group (Blue Cross/Blue Shield), St. Luke's Episcopal Healthcare System, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Defense, and all four branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. Tumbleweed was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. For additional information about Tumbleweed go to www.tumbleweed.com or call 650-216-2000.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
Tumbleweed cautions that forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on plans and expectations as of the date of the press release, and that a number of factors could cause the actual results to differ materially from the guidance given at this time. These factors are described in the Safe Harbor statement below.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, particularly with respect to the functionality and performance of Tumbleweed products. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “potential,” “continue,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “estimates,” and similar expressions. For further cautions about the risks of investing in Tumbleweed, we refer you to the documents Tumbleweed files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Tumbleweed's Form 10-K filed March 16, 2005 and Form 10-Q filed August 9, 2005.
Tumbleweed assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release, which represents the Company’s expectations only as of the date of this release and should not be viewed as a statement about the Company’s expectations after such date. Although this release may remain available on the Company’s website or elsewhere, its continued availability does not indicate that the Company is reaffirming or confirming any of the information contained herein.
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